I’ve tried 4 trackballs and all of them are painful
I’ve been sold on trackballs ever since my last job gave me a Logitech thumb ball.
After a couple years of the thumb type, my thumb joint started to hurt and now I’m trying to find an alternative. I have big hands, long and skinny fingers.
I bought a Kensington expert, Elecom deft pro, and elecom huge plus, with the intention to pick my favorite and return the rest.
The Kensington expert I tried for a week and gave me pretty bad wrist pain. I tried rotating it 90 degrees as people suggested, but it just ended up feeling awkward. With clicking as well. Also my scroll wheel is squeaky and not very smooth.
This week I’ve been alternating between the Elecom huge plus and the deft pro. The huge plus ball feels a lot better to me, but the wrist pad is pretty uncomfortable and I’m still having wrist pain. For the deft pro, the shape definitely feels better in the hand, but the up tilt of the wrist isn’t very nice. And the ball doesn’t feel as good as it does on the Huge plus to me. For both of these I’ve been trying different angles and tilts, so far nothing has felt great but I don’t know how much of it is just needing to get used to it.
At this point my options are to go with one (probably the huge plus) and try to modify it to be comfortable, or to return them all and try something else. Any suggestions based on what I’ve said would be greatly appreciated.